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23rd Kalamata Dance Festival 2017

14-23 July 2017

Artistic Director: Katerina Kasioumi

Main program

PERFORMANCES

  • Centre Choréographique National – Ballet de Lorraine
    Opal Loop / Cloud Installation #72503 by Trisha Brown, Rose-variation by Mathilde Monnier, Sounddance by Merce Cunningham
  • CCN2-Centre Choréographique National de Grenoble / Rachid Ouramdane
    Tordre
  • Kinitiras / Antigone Gyra
    Unsuspected Time
  • Zita Dance Company / Iris Karayan
    Alaska
  • Vertigo Dance Company / Noa Wertheim
    Yama
  • Creo Dance Company / Polina Kremasta
    apogee
  • Helena Franzén & Ori Flomin
    Meeting You (Greek premiere)
  • Moving Into Dance Mophatong / Jessica Nupen
    Romeo & Juliet / REBELLION & JOHANNESBURG
    (Greek premiere)
  • Marina Mascarell
    Three Times Rebel (Greek premiere)
  • Ioannis Mandafounis & Aoife McAtamney
    One One One
  • Adi Boutrous
    It’s Always Here (Greek premiere)
  • Andrea Costanzo Martini
    SCARABEO, Angles and the Void (Greek premiere)

SIDE EVENTS

  • Screening Martha & Niki by Tora Mkandawire Mårtens
  • Screening and discussion Working Dancers by Konstantina Boumsboura and Julia Martinez Heimann
  • Screening Gaga by Tomer Heymann
  • Public Presentation of Barbara Kane’s workshop
  • Masked battles, piano recital by Alexia Mouza
  • The Museum dances, touring & presentation at Archaeological Museum of Messenia, Kalamata by Barbara Kane

WORSHOPS

  • Dance workshop led by Françoise Rageau and Sandra Voulgari
  • Dance workshop Working Bodies led by Sofia Mavragani and Konstantina Bousmpoura
  • Gaga dance workshop led by Andrea Costanzo Martini
  • Dance workshop Μoving Into Dance Mophatong led by Sunnyboy Motau and Oscar Buthelezi

MASTERCLASSES

  • Dance Masterclass led by Polina Kremasta
  • Masterclass Do You Speak Dance? on Verbal Communication of Choreographic Research and Creation led by Christos Polymenakos

Media

GENERAL TRAILER